samba - Aug 2002 - Special Characters in smbmount

Can you assist me in determining how to use smbmount using special
characters.  I have a Windows dir I want to share and its share name is
$transfer.  I use the $ as a prefix so that it rises to the top of the list
and is easily recognizable.

Here is the command I have tried  for the following directory d:\$transfer;
$transfer is a valid share on the D drive:

Smbmount //servername/$transfer  (could not resolve mountpoint)
Smbmount //servername/\$transfer (could not resolve mountpoint)

I can easily resolve it by dropping the ?$? and all is well.  But I was
wondering if there is another special character needed or 
in order to use
the ?$? in a dir name.

Thanks for any help.
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$ is fine to use. Just escape it like you have done.
You can also use single quotes.
I believe you have forgotten to specify a mount point,
smbmount //servername/\$transfer /mnt/mymountpoint
Try:
smbclient '/servername/$transfer'

Yes, I know. I spent three hours yesterday scratching my head over a dumber
mistake than this.

Joel

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:05:29AM -0500, John Moen
wrote:
> Can you assist me in determining how to use smbmount using special
> characters.  I have a Windows dir I want to share and its share name is
> $transfer.  I use the $ as a prefix so that it rises to the top of the list
> and is easily recognizable.
> 
> Here is the command I have tried  for the following directory d:\$transfer;
> $transfer is a valid share on the D drive:
> 
> Smbmount //servername/$transfer  (could not resolve mountpoint)
> Smbmount //servername/\$transfer (could not resolve mountpoint)
> 
> I can easily resolve it by dropping the ?$? and all is well.  But I was
> wondering if there is another special character needed or 
in order to use
> the ?$? in a dir name.
> 
> Thanks for any help.